Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress, delivered the keynote address at the annual North Carolina Women’s Summit on Sept. 24 at Wake Forest, giving a forceful argument for family-oriented economic policies ahead of the 2016 election.
The event, put on by Women AdvaNCe — a non-partisan political group based in Raleigh — included panels and discussions featuring local businesswomen and female professors addressing a host of social and political issues ranging from fair pay to education to women’s health.
“The truth is that in the United States, we have a lot of rhetoric about valuing families, it definitely roils through our politics that ‘families are great,’” Tanden said in an interview before her address.